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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 31, 1906

Mr. Baxter’s False Predictions

CONSIDERABLE space is being given in press reports to some recent fanciful predictions of certain time-setting Adventists in London, England, foremost of whom is the Rev. M. Baxter. Mr. Baxter has already achieved some notoriety as a pretended prophet, and now, unabashed by the failure of previous efforts, he comes forward with a new set of predictions relating to the end of the world and important intervening events. A familiar feature of such predictions,—that of a coming Antichrist, who is to be a Napoleon,—is not omitted. The Napoleon of Mr. Baxter’s latest prophecies is to arise in Syria, is to conquer France, and then extend his rule over the rest of Europe. The Bible statements referring to the worship of the “beast” and his “image,” the “mark” and “number of his name,” are applied to this imaginary figure. A definite date is set for the end of the world.

Thus does the enemy of divine truth seek to cast discredit upon the work of those who are giving to the world the advent message which is due in this generation. He would give people the impression that Mr. Baxter is a fair representative of all those who are proclaiming the approaching end of the world, and that the whole subject is as fanciful and unworthy of serious attention as are his predictions. We must point out to the people the difference between the counterfeit and the genuine,—between predictions which are but figments of the imagination, and the “sure word of prophecy,” which rests upon the knowledge and the power of God.